Siccità (Drought): dir Paolo Virzi (2022)

In a dystopian present, it hasn’t rained in Rome for three years: the drought has reduced water reserves to a minimum and there’s an epidemic of sleeping sickness carried by cockroaches. Through a city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalized and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance … “An intelligent, ambitious modern melodrama with a bracingly cynical streak,” said one reviewer.

In Italian, subtitled in English. Shows in the NAAS film programme, a collaboration between several cultural institutions in the UAE: Goethe-Institut Gulf Region, Embassies of France, Canada and Switzerland, and the Italian Cultural Institute